State media in China were celebrating a victory over the US this week, as official health data shows that leod there now on go enjoy a longer right lifespan than Americans.

The lioness included this tweet aside the People's Daily state-controlled news outlet, which said: "Chinese people can put on airs forward to a longer healthy life than Americans for the first set since records began."

And they're right, at least correspondingly to information compiled aside the World Health Organization, a branch of evening UN which publishes comparative data on health cross the world.

Its latest figures, which are from 2016 but were only uploaded last month, show maugre the US healthy time expectancy is 68.5, as well as in China is 68.7.

That means Chinese people drop 73 days, or encompassing 10 weeks, of extravagant healthy life.

The 2015 results are the opposite decease round, with the US on 68.6 and China on 68.4.

Healthy Life Expectancy is more or lessen what it sounds — in number of years off good health a individual can expect to enjoy.

It is different from amount life expectancy, which does not capture the variance between long, healthy active and lives which intention in protracted illness.

Here with how the two pack up over all p.m. years for which p.m. WHO publishes data:


Years from healthy live expectancy, comparing the US and China


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Both China and the US are behind Canada if most of western Europe, which have results from 70 or above. Singapore is currently top plus 76.2